Four of the drugstores employees filed a class-action lawsuit accusing their bosses of ordering them to target black and Hispanic shoppers.
Taraji P. Henson has apologized to a California police department for claims she made an officer racially profiled her son. The Empire scene stealer made headlines over an interview she gave to Uptown magazine last month. Taraji revealed she decided to send her son Marcel Johnson, 20, to her alma mater, Howard University instead of the […]
Yesterday, it was announced that the Department of Public Safety in Oklahoma created a law that would ban hoodies, and masks from being worn in public when participating in illegal activity. The decision is supported by the Senator Don Barrington, after a string of robberies at quick stop places like pizza shops and drugstores were caught on camera […]
Leigh Anne Tuohy, the woman Sandra Bullock played in “The Blind Side,” where Tuohy and her husband adopted NFL tackle Michael Oher when he was a homeless teenager, posted the above photo after she saw two young Black men at a restaurant huddled together. The person she was with at the restaurant spotted the two […]
Jody Westby had to come to the aid of an older Black man, Dennis Stucky who had been stopped by police in her posh neighborhood, Foxhall Crescent. Honestly, posh is an understatement, which is probably why police saw the Black man and immediately thought he was up to no good. Apparently, the officers were responding to […]
Protest Begin For Vonderrit Myers Jr. Shooting & St. Louis Police Already Have The Military Gear Out
Another unarmed Black boy, Vonderrit Myers Jr., 18, was shot dead on Wednesday by an off-duty cop in St. Louis, adding fuel to the fire that’s been burning in Missouri since Mike Brown’s untimely death in Ferguson — also at the hands of a police officer. Many residents in Missouri and beyond are still protesting in support […]
Another day, another incident where police have seemed to take things way further than they needed to go. Today comes reports that North Carolina high school student DeShawn Currie was accused of burglarizing his own home and pepper-sprayed by an officer, of course the neighbors were suspicious because he was Black. Apparently a neighbor mistook […]
Actress Daniele Watts (“Django Unchained,” “Weeds” and “Partners”) took to her Facebook page to share a devastating incident that happened between herself, her husband, Brian James Lucas and the LAPD. According to the police, they were responding to a 911 call about “indecent exposure inside a silver Mercedes with the vehicle door open.” They came […]
Remember that time luxury retail giant, Barneys was under fire for several back to back cases of “shopping while Black,” where several Black customers complained of being treated unfairly or with unwarranted force after shopping and or/leaving NYC’s Madison Avenue Barneys location? This sad pattern of racial profiling began last year when the high-end store […]
A Hispanic NYPD officer shopping at Macy’s Herald Square after Thanksgiving last year claims she was wrongly arrested for shoplifting after store security lied that…
CNN’s Don Lemon endorsed New York City’s racist ‘Stop & Frisk’ policy during his regular appearance on the ‘Tom Joyner Morning Show,’ and Black Twitter responded furiously with the #DonLemonOn hashtag. RELATED: Don Lemon’s 5 Points Of Advice For Blacks: ‘Pull You Pants Up, Pick Up The Trash & Stop Having Babies’ [GIFS] “So goes New York City, so […]
19-year-old Trayon Christian–the young man who was nabbed at Barneys after purchasing a $350 Salvatore Ferragamo belt. Police questioned his ability of being able to afford the belt and he rebutted with a lawsuit for the NYPD and the luxury department store. The publicity Christian’s claim received has inspired others to come forward, like Kayla […]
